IDEAS!!

I started coming up with ideas for a game within moments of coming up with the idea to try to make a game. I wanted something as easy, yet addictive, as Angry Birds. If you don't know what Angry Birds is, then you probably don't have an iPhone or an Android. It's been the top downloaded game for, like, a billion years. Totally.

My first idea was about light. I wanted to turn on lights in a house. So I searched through the Corona SDK website and found ... nothing. I spent hours trying to make a "hole" in a black layer so you could see the graphic of the room below. Turns out, you can't do that. UPDATE: Turns out that now you can. Ansca added an upgrade just today that allows you to do exactly what I was trying to do. Weird timing.

Despite not being able to "turn on a light," I changed my mind about this idea because I don't think I could pull it off right now. With all of the elements I'm thinking about for this game, I'm gong to wait until I become more proficient at Corona SDK.

What then? Well, I pondered for a little while and came up with another idea that involves water. I immediately used some of the sample apps to creating something like water and within a couple of hours I had a really crude prototype working in Corona SDK.

Um, but now what?